P. M. Bardi
The Tropical Gardens of Burle Marx.
Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1964. Author-signed first edition. 155 pages.
Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.75" x 12", is bound in olive green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book displays light shelfwear, with very mild dust soiling/light foxing to top and fore edge of text block. A small amount of ink markings can be seen near bottom of fore edge of the same. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket, with price of $15 on front flap, exhibits shelfwear, with minor loss/closed tears around edges of head of spine panel, light soiling concentrated at edges of covers and flaps. Two small closed tears are visible at bottom edge of front panel and minor taping at edges of flaps. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. Text is trilingual in English, German and Italian.
Inscription appears at the top of front flyleaf and reads: "To Carl Shimer / With admiration / Roberto Burle Marx / 1965".
"In this book, P. M. Bardi, director of the Museum of Art of Sao Paulo, with the help of photographs especially taken for this book by Marcel Gautherot, illustrates the work of the Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, whose many exhibitions held all over the world have made his reputation as the foremost landscape architect of our time. The book purposely conciliates the artistic and scientific aspects, and is designed to appeal to architects as well as to a wider public. Both will appreciate the display of so many tropical gardens, some of which have already been described or pictured in the most important reviews of architecture in Europe and America. It contains an intimate portrait of his uncanny shaper of landscapes, a biography as brilliant and intriguing as the character of man himself; beautiful illustrations of the more important gardens accompanied by a running commentary; and samples of the gardens of Caracas, no doubt Burle Marx's most representative achievement up to date.
To Burle Marx we are indebted for the reaction to the prejudice against the utilization of the more common flora, and in his  landscape garden for new compositions and combinations of the typical plants of the country. In the course of long trips deep into the inaccessible regions that stretch from the Amazon to the Chaco, he discovered an enormous quantity of plants, which were subsequently acclimatized by him in the various regions in which he creates his tropical gardens.
The book fills a gap in the literature of garden architecture in general, for it is the only one devoted to a tropical landscape gardener and his work."